With the official announcement of the pregnancy of the Duchess of Cambridge, it seems William and Kate will have an heir, a spare, and one for the country.
Congratulations
to the British royal pair. The growing British royal family seems to be taking
a page out of the Princess Mary book and her Danish royal brood of four.
No doubt the
relentless celebrity that will surround the unborn prince or princess will
continue to add to the British royal stamp of approval. Nevertheless this royal
celebrity is an image dominated by an obsessive media and popular cultural
landscape, which treat royalty as entertainment rather than as a political
institution.
I hope one
day soon that any Australian child will have the opportunity and honour to
become an Australian Head of State, and not because he or she has had the
privilege to have been born into Britain’s royal family.
I look
forward to the day when Australia’s Head of State is determined by merit, not
birthright, and affirms Australia’s values as a free, fair, democratic,
multicultural nation.
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